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Negotiate

TE. To discuss or arrange a sale or bargain; to arrange the preliminaries of a business transaction. Also to sell or discount negotiable paper, or assign or trans-fer it by indorsement and dellvery. Palmer v. Ferry, 6 Gray (Mass.) 420; Newport Nat. Bank v. Board of Education, 114 Ky. 87, 70 S. W. 186; odell v. Clyde, 23 Misc. Rep. 734, 53 N. Y. Supp. 61; Biakiston v. Dudley, 5 Duer (N. Y.) 377

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)